The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-06-30
FIzZ, POP AND BANG.
THE PRESENTATION OF POINTS
PECULIAR TO PYRoTEcHNY.
How Spectacular Combustion Finds a
Marlset-Fireworks No Longer Monopo-
1ized by the Fourth of July-Collections
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How Spectacular Combustion Finds
Marlret-Fireworks No Longer Monopo-
1ized by the Fourth of July-Collections
for Corporation Celebrations.
One does not have to overhaul his mem.
ory to any great extent to reach back to
the time when Independence day was the
one day Of the year when skyrOckets and
pinTheels asserted themselves as q SYM
Dol of our country's greatness. Along in
the fall, it is true, when candidates for
public office sought the suffrage of their
fellow citizens; the Roman candle supple:
mented the oil torch as an adjunct of pO-
litical professions. But, as general rule,
the fireworks that were not burned on
Fourth of July night were carefully
packed away for next year. 1t is not sd
any more. Pyrotechnic displays are prom
inent attractions at summer resorts 'all
through the season, and the father Of q
family who takes his boys and girls in the
country to pass the heated months not
unfrequently adds o box of fireworks to
the Lares and Penates that he carries
along.
'"This fireworks package business has
grown to some considerable proportions,
hasn't it?' asked the truth seeker.
BOX COLLECTIONS.
s'Well, guess you'd think so," replied
the pyrotechnician. "We instituted the
plan of putting up these box collections
about sixteen years ago, and it has been
growing more popular every year. Want
to know, why? Well, most people who
buy fireworks for Fourth of July cele-
bration very naturally put of the pur-
chase until the last minute. For that
matter, most purchasers of any kind Of
goods do the same thing, but just stop
and think how the rule applies to fire.
works when you consider what they are.
It is not TO be expected that man would
want box of them lying around loose in
his house for two or three weeks. Yes,
if there's anything that's bought at the
eleventh hour, it's fireworks. Then,
again, not one person in twenty knows
what he wants. There Is q general desire
for something that will make show, and
perhaps make q noise, but the average
man knows only the commonplace names
of pieces that will produce certain effects.
They know what bcngola lights, triangles
and mines are, but we can't expect the
president Of bank, or man who has
made a fortune in potatoes, to eXpend his
valuable time in trying to learn the differ
ence between saucisson mine and a
tourbillion rocket
So we, as it were, do their thinking for
them, and put up a collection according to
our knowledge Of results consistent with
the price charged for it. It's very much
cheaper for the purchaser, too. Now
there's collection packed ready for de-
livery. We charge 80 cents for it just as
it stands. 1t contains thirty pieces-none
of them very elaborate, it is true, but
what do you suppose you'd have to pay
for them If you came in here and puttered
around our stock, selecting this one here
and that one there, and wasting at least
half an hours time in doing it2 Well;
here's our catalogue and you can see at
once that, if you bought each one of those
thirty pieces at retail, you'd have to pay
something over 81 for the lot, and they
wouldn't be so compactly packed for de-
livery either. How could they be, under
the circumstances?
CORPORATION CELEBRATIONS.